Ooo baby, that’s hot stuff. Hot stuff. Like, when you pull it out reeeeaaaaal slow and there’s that spark… Excuse me, I need to go recharge my Roomba.

$18.

[ Go Ape Shirts ] VIA [ Fashionably Geek ]

If you’re going to build a dedicated cat-poking robot, you should probably give it the ability to withstand a vicious kitty right hook. Pow!

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There’s a point at which it’s better to have a totally dumb sexbot that knows it’s dumb, rather than a totally dumb sexbot that thinks it can talk to humans. Observe this conversation, which is a phishing attempt by a chat program sexbot (ernestineholom553@hotmail.com):

ernestineholom553@hotmail.com says:
hey, hows it going?

Mary says:
good thanks
sorry who r u?

ernestineholom553@hotmail.com says:
i’m 21/f your a male right?

Mary says:
um no!
32/f
how did u get my msn??

ernestineholom553@hotmail.com says:
nice, I just got off work and finally got some time to relax which site did i msg you from again?

Mary says:
i have no idea, you added me….

ernestineholom553@hotmail.com says:
I know a way we can chat and have a better time.. do you cam?

Mary says:
ummm but you are a girl?

ernestineholom553@hotmail.com says:
Well i don’t do yahoo cam or any other cam because i have been recorded before… But i do know one site you can watch me on cam, that assures me no one records…

Mary says:
sorry but i am not into girls
i dont know how you got my msn

ernestineholom553@hotmail.com says:
I mean… Do you want to see me on my cam?

Mary says:
sorry but i am not into girls
how did u get my msn?

ernestineholom553@hotmail.com says:
Ok go to [EVIL REDACTED URL] accept the invite on the page baby

Mary says:
what is the capital of saudi aurabia?

ernestineholom553@hotmail.com says:
sweet, fill out the info ur info.. i can not wait for you to see me baby let me find something nice to wear

Mary says:
wow this is a botnet, crazy!!
ha ha

ernestineholom553@hotmail.com says:
whats a bot?

Mary says:
u r not a real person

ernestineholom553@hotmail.com says:
its the sites policy to ensure no minors get access to the site, so they might ask for CC to verify your age babe.

Mary says:
what is the capital of saudi arabia…..

ernestineholom553@hotmail.com says:
What color Panties do you think i should wear? i might have you favorite color here somewhere…

Mary says:
hmmm pink

ernestineholom553@hotmail.com says:
ok, great I got the perfect pink panties for ya …ur gunna love these!!

Mary says:
no black

ernestineholom553@hotmail.com says:
Your such a good boy, i’m gonna show you what good boys deserve.. you can tell me to do anything you want me to do!

Mary says:
i am a girl!!

ernestineholom553@hotmail.com says:
Ok let me know when you get in so I can invite you directly to my cam.

Sexbots, take note: the capital of Saudi Arabia is Riyadh, and we always want the black panties.

VIA [ Gizmodo ]

I don’t watch TV, but if I did, I would find DJ Roomba pretty funny:

While not an official iRobot accessory, I imagine it wouldn’t be too hard to pull off with a trip to Brookstone and some duct tape. Where exactly to find music with DJ Roomba lyrics, however, is a different story.

VIA [ Engadget ]

I was too busy taking a nap to watch the Super Bowl, but fortunately the important parts of it are now up on YouTube. For what it’s worth, Intel, with the amount of money that this commercial probably cost you, I bet you could have made an actual Jeffrey.

Jeffrey has his own Facebook page, of course, complete with vacation photos and wisecracks in binary. Here’s his bio:

Activities: Beeping, moving around stiffly, applying logic to problems, speaking in monotone, computin’ and figurin’, weightlifting

Interests: Binary Code, Quantum theory, sensory robotics, differential calculus, grilled cheese sandwiches, muscle cars, full contact chess, flight simulator games, number crunching and going for long rolls on the beach.

Favorite Movies: Terminator, Short Circuit, Tron, Star Wars, The Matrix, Iron Giant, A.I, and the Ernest series.

Favorite Music: Daft Punk, Crystal Method, Rush, Moby, Fatboy Slim, Massive Attack, The Zep, Chemical Brothers. Pretty much all electronica. And Crunk.

Favorite Books: I, Robot; 1984; old Commodore 64 user manuals (still hilarious).

Favorite TV Show:
Battlestar Gallactica, Robot Chicken, Star Trek, Lost, Battle Bots, Top Chef, Jeopardy,The Jetsons, America’s Next Top Rocket Scientist and Anderson Cooper 360

Mmm, grilled cheese sandwiches… I like this robot.

[ Jeffrey @ Facebook ] VIA [ HowToWeb on Twitter ]

Crap, it’s two of my favorite things trying to destroy each other… I can’t possibly choose who I want to win, just toss me in the middle and let me get torn to shreds by a tornado of cuteness and robotyness.

[ Powerpig @ Flickr ] VIA [ Robots.net ]

[ XKCD ]
[ FIRST Robotics ]

Pay attention kids: If you want to grow up to be a robot, or a robot builder, or both at the same time, listen to C-3PO:

Like robots, you should only smoke when you’re on fire. And you’d better hope that unlike robots, being on fire is not a common thing for you.

Yeah, it’s hard to top Keanu.

VIA [ Gearfuse ]

Someone from the CKBot group at UPenn’s Modlab spent the summer at Willow Garage and decided to leave an impression on a researcher there by hiding an armed and questionably dangerous robot in the ceiling of his cubicle. A remote control raises a cutout section of ceiling tile, and the robot fires ping pong balls down at the hapless human below.

Obviously, this is a capability that PR2 needs to be endowed with to be successful in the workplace… I’m sure someone is getting right on that.

[ Modlab ]
[ Willow Garage ]

A Google image search for “Roomba spoiler” turned up nothing. Maybe these guys can whip up something that is also somehow useful… Or not useful. I’d still buy one.

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